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International Conference: Philosophy of the Black Experience
CALL FOR PAPERS Deadline August 1, 2023 The Conference will be Hosted by the Department of Philosophy at Howard University, Washington DC, March 28-30, 2024 The demand/struggle for racial equality, identity, and justice by populations racialized as Black (and other people of color) in the United States and anywhere around the world remain issues of…
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Leonard Harris Reader
A Philosophy of Struggle (Bloomsbury Academic) Collating, for the first time, the key writings of Leonard Harris, this volume introduces readers to a leading figure in African-American and liberatory thought. https://www.amazon.com/Philosophy-Struggle-Leonard-Harris-Reader/dp/1350084190/ Harris’ writings on honor, insurrectionist ethics, tradition, and his work on Alain Locke have established him as a leading figure in critical philosophy. His…
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Centennial Commemoration Moves to SAAP Portland
100 Year Anniversary commemoration moves to Portland for the 2016 meeting of the Society for the Advancement of American Philosophy (SAAP.) This Alain Locke Society panel at SAAP will be held in honor of the 100 year anniversary of the lecture series delivered by Alain Locke in 1916 entitled “Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures…
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Philosophy Born of Struggle 2015 – UCONN Storrs
Embodied Philosophy & Epistemologies of Liberation November 6-7, 2015 University of Connecticut, Storrs, CT Hosted by the Department of Philosophy, UCONN and the Caribbean Philosophical Association “All philosophies, it seems to me, are in ultimate derivation philosophies of life and not abstract, disembodied ‘objective’ reality; products of time, place and situation and thus systems of…
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APA-Eastern Symposium to Commemorate Centennial of Locke Lecture Series
“100 Years of Race Contacts and Inter-Racial Relations a Symposium in Honor of Alain L. Locke” This symposium will be held in honor of the 100 year anniversary of the lecture series delivered by Alain Locke in 1916 entitled “Race Contacts and Interracial Relations: Lectures on the Theory and Practice of Race” which he also…
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Purdue Names McBride, Carter, and Tan as Locke Visiting Scholars
Purdue University Announces 2015-2016 ALAIN L. LOCKE VISITING SCHOLAR APPOINTEES Department of Philosophy Lee McBride, College of Wooster Impure Communities of Resistance: Harris and Lugones Creative Democracy: Dewey and Mouffe Insurrectionist Ethics and Angela Davis Food and Race as Tradition Jacoby A. Carter, CUNY, John Jay College of Criminal Justice Racial Contributions and the Americas’…
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Caribbean Philosophical Assn. Honors Leonard Harris with Lifetime Award
The Caribbean Philosophical Association is pleased to announce the 2014 recipient of the association’s Frantz Fanon Lifetime Achievement Award is Leonard Harris. Professor Harris is a pioneer in the academic study of African American philosophy with his groundbreaking textbook, Philosophy Born of Struggle, and The Philosophy of Alain Locke. Harris continues to be at the…
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Locke Internment Archive
See Invitation Interment at 11:00 am Saturday, September 13, 2014 Congressional Cemetery 1801 E Street Southeast Washington, DC
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Alain Locke Society at World Congress, Athens
The Alain Locke Society is a member of FISP (International Federation of Philosophical Societies, http://www.fisp.org). The society will sponsor a Session at the 23rd World Congress of Philosophy, Athens, 4-10, 2013. The two themes for our “Member Session” are listed below (A,B,C,D), drawn from the book Philosophic Values and World Citizenship, J. A. Carter, L.…
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Alain Locke entry added to Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy
Alain LeRoy Locke By Jacoby Adeshei Carter Alain LeRoy Locke is heralded as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance” for his publication in 1925 of The New Negro—an anthology of poetry, essays, plays, music and portraiture by white and black artists. Locke is best known as a theorist, critic, and interpreter of African-American literature and…
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